Lord Neaves read a paper entitled “Some Helps to the Study of Scoto-Celtic Philology,” in which, after noticing the mistaken tendencies of the Celtic scholars of former times, both Irish and Scotch, as to the origin and affinities of Gaelic, and adverting to the fact now firmly fixed that it was an Aryan or Indo-Germanic tongue, he submitted a statement of some of the imitations or disguises which words underwent or assumed in passing into Gaelic. Thus it was a peculiarity of Gaelic to avoid the letter p, which it did in various ways. Sometimes it dropped that letter, as when it changed the Latin Pater into Athir, the Latin piscis into iasg, plenus into lán, &c. Sometimes it changed the p into a gutteral c, g, or ch, as seachd for septem, feasgar for vesper.